Joe Newton

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I fixed a leaky drain plug in a Greenmech hydraulic oil tank with some grey stuff that I mixed up.

Worked a treat.

Not going to lose a grands worth of saw over this!

JB WELD is a metallic 2 part epoxy.

Can you get that in France?

You'll need to thoroughly clean the outside and inside on the tank out with a degreaser. Carb cleaner would work well.

I'd also rough up the surface area with a dremel or something.

More is more in this case. It doesn't have to look pretty and if you want to you can grind excess down after its hardened. 

3 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

 

Can you tell my skin colour from text?

Amazing.

Don't be such a gollywog

19 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

UK immigration law is not piss weak. My Grand Father flew a Hurricane in the battle of Britain and me, his Grandson a New Zealander gets the 9th degree each time I visit the UK....

Immigration is the least of our fucking worries mate. Let's hold up a mirror first before we start blaming the foreigners. 

I would be careful. Any action taken by you could be argued to have contributed to the damage.

Let the owner of the tree deal with it. There's no room for argument then. 

35 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Yup, very common. The first sign is the stop switch not working, the second is a smart arse using the choke to switch the engine off, the third is the same smart arse finding the engine is knackered from their saw tech

I think you overestimate the capacity for mechanical engineering of your average tree worker. The lack thereoff which had paid for your last few holidays 😁

1 hour ago, 5thelement said:

 

They certainly aren’t going to open up when the OP won’t even be straight up wether he is even towing the line, why should they?

I'm sure there's plenty on here with valuable input to give, but it's off-putting whilst the two of you are bickering back and forth like children.

Pipe down and you might get a bit more contribution. 

15 minutes ago, BobbyDee said:

Can any tell me whether engine compression of 90psi is poor for the Stihl MS150TC please? That figure seems low to me but it's a tiny teeny engine so it may be fine. I searched online but can't get any joy. I'm just trying to work out whether it's worth doing a makeover on my 10 year old one, which is still going reasonably well but definitely showing its age, or to get a shiny new replacement, probably the Echo CS2511 however they cost a fair bit more than the price of some new bits for the Stihl.

I think after ten years you can probably retire it. It's earned its money.

5 hours ago, GarethM said:

I could have been a little more tactful, but learn by doing. For a tenner it's worth trying, they might even get it right 1st time.

Many "pros" i know can't sharpen a chain well after years.

I think the powersharp system is aimed at people like the OP.

that said by the time you've bought a saw and a few chains, then replaced the cutting gear with the powersharp system you could have paid someone to remove them for less. 

You can buy a narrow kerf bar and chain for those saws, i run an 18" on my 357xpg and it rips through timber. That's the route id go down. @RobD sells them

18 hours ago, Peasgood said:

It paid off. Had my MRI results today and tumours have gone and no sign of cancer anywhere else in my body.

Told me it is still early days but 85% of people in early remission as I am remain cancer free at 5 year mark.

As good a result as possible, best get on with summat now.

Yeah, but you'll have to pay for your prescriptions now, which is a bit shit. 

Toothed ascenders can shear the rope cover in the event of a small drop. If you're installing access lines with a throwline there's a good chance of your rope going over a small branch above what you think is over. It happens and the resulting drop could seriously damage your rope if your primary attachment is a toothed ascender.

What do you climb on for working the tree?

Using a toothed ascender as your primary attachment to the rope is a pretty bad idea for tree work. Use a climbing device in place of the croll, and turn the croll until a knee ascender. Sorted. 

The above is where I stand, and I'd wager that most people who have been doing this for a while would agree.

It doesn't make money thus sense to do unpaid investigative work to win a job that probably won't be worth the total hours spent.

Same as boundary issues.

National service would go a long way to reducing crime in younger people. 

Might work fine. If you're buying a new bar and chain I'd strongly suggest changing to a .325 narrow kerf set up, it'll sap less power. Might even be available in semi skip too. Chat to Rob Dyer at chainsawbars.co.uk

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

Quite. I can’t believe the “men” who have opinions about this shit. 

You don't understand why it's newsworthy that a paedophile has be found out and a huge corporation could've been complicit?

Yeah, probably best to just turn a blind eye.

The other thing to note is that this discussion is effectively based on you being a good as you think you are.

It's not a challenge because we don't know each other, but if you've given him prior cause to doubt you then that's a factor worth noting.

13 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

In hindsight I would have done it very differently, and better.

 

I certainly didn’t do it in the most effective fashion.

 

Pre-internet 2004 (just about) we were working in a bubble of a few guys who chatted about stuff, you didn’t see videos of other guys around the world (or even the likes of Reg in Manchester) doing crane jobs. Undoubtedly it happened but it wasn’t widespread or something the ordinary guy would consider.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We certainly live in a brave new world of possibilities. Personally I would price for the least labour intensive option and let someone undercut me and have the headache on a job like that. I'll bet you made bugger all profit on that one. 

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Rock and a hard place, Joe. I need him as much as he needs me. He pays every week on time. In November 2021 he took on 162 pumping stations over three industrial estates that aren't far from here, and to be fair they are money for old rope. He just needs to leave me alone to look after them. 

Here's a wild card, but hear me out...

Chat to the bloke. Explain that you know your field which is why he pays you. Also explain that you appreciate his work and that you'd prefer to maintain that relationship. Then mention your grievance and see if he can understand.

If not you've lost nothing that you hadn't written off in your head already. Best case you keep his work and he let's you do your thing. 

Sounds crazy, right?

22 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

How long have you got?!

In 2004 dropped a big oak butt in a garden in Woking without realizing there was a 15” main sewage pipe just under the surface.

The groundy said he’d heard a funny noise when it dropped, I said it was just a redundant land drain from when it was farmland.

Then the tampons, nappies and human shit started covering the lawn.

 

The picture is of me ringing it down, I realised that it was too time consuming so I felled it in one.

 

 

 

Outfuckingstanding!  That's a chunky girl alright. Sod chogging that. How close could you get a crane?

19 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

 

Who are you to argue, if you are the more experienced person I’d say it’s your place to put your point across. We knew the diameter and the length of the riser, I told him draining it back would flood the chamber, he wouldn’t listen until it was to late, then we sit about for three hours waiting for a tanker, he’s cost me time and himself call out charges for a tanker. As I said earlier, I’m there to earn us both money.

I'd bill him overtime. I'd also be insufferable in the aftermath.

If he doesn't want to listen to you and loses money because of that, that's his call.

I hear you though, I generally don't work for people who don't know what they're doing.

7 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Of course all agreed,

But come on now….the “he makes sheds dead” It’s a thing ….. amirite?

 

(sending email to Go daddy as we speak)

 

 

Come to think of it, I probably haven't been trying hard enough. I've really not had many damages apart from the odd fence panel and a couple of roof tiles. I did write off a fiat 500 and the transit  I was driving once because I was trying to operate a jetboil whilst driving.

I reckon you'll have a good fuckup story or two Mick?

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Why, If someone is paying you to do the job why get involved?Give me the job card, parts, and an extra pair of hands and it will be sorted. Each to their own, I guess.

That's how it mostly is, but if someone insisted then who am I to argue. When your dogma has cost you money and inconvenience you might think twice about overruling me next time. 

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I can believe you’d play along if the job over-ran, but I am not so sure you’d  knowingly causing damage to property.

Otherwise you’d get the nickname Joe “he makes sheds dead” Newton

Don't get me wrong, if you're not destroying the odd shed/fence etc then you're just not trying.

I'll generally tell whoever I'm working for how it's doing to go. If they insist on imposing themselves on me then fuck it, I really don't care. I'm secure enough in my competence. If you want to tell me how to do a job that I know better than you then on your head be it!

20 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

You would care as well, otherwise you wouldn’t have posted 3200 times on a work related forum.

I actually agree with Alex on this one. Most people who use me do so because I know my job and do it well. If someone wants to tell me how to do it against my experience and judgement then I'll gladly comply. Not my issue if a job overruns or a shed gets the business as a result of that. I'll probably have a giggle as it happens.

4 hours ago, treevolution said:

Reading the small print it looks like you can only wear the trousers with a chainsaw in a tree. 

 

Maybe that's why they are struggling to sell them. 

 

Still going to get a pair. 

Will they stop a 500i until your feet hit the ground?

23 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

 

 

Anyway, can we get back to why you find me such a babe? Im in bed now and a little dirty talk could get me in the mood. xx

Try posting the c-bomb in the forum, see what happens. It'll all make sense. 

I'm sure you're jumping to conclusions Mark, it's not like he's black.